Naruto, be my son.

After all, Hinata was just a three-year-old girl back then.

There is no reason to put the blame on her.

The real reason why he fell into the whirlpool of fate was - the old guys who stubbornly maintained the decadent tradition, the Kumogakure who kidnapped Hinata and wanted to seize the Byakugan bloodline, and Konoha who compromised the Kumogakure village and ultimately cost his father his life. Senior executives, the ninja world with deformed and extremely twisted minds!

All the fog that obscured him dissipated.

Neji's eyes suddenly brightened.

He got it.

He had an epiphany.

He saw clearly.

Regarding the joint assassination of the "Hyuuga Sect" with outsiders... Neji also began to accept it with peace of mind.

Because the Hyuga clan is the decadent die-hard faction within the Hyuga clan, and it is also the leader of this faction.

Neji clearly remembered...the caged bird on his forehead was carved by the Hyuga clan when he was four years old.

The mark of the Caged Bird Curse on his forehead.

Leave traces of this elder Hyuga!

Even a character like Hinata can make up her mind and follow the Whitebeard Pirates all the way to the dark side. And is Hyuga Neji worse than this former eldest lady in terms of determination?

"Thank you...Naruto Uzumaki." Neji rubbed his face. Naruto's punch just now still hurts him to this day: "Your punch woke me up."

"Huh?" Naruto was still immersed in the joy of having Kisame join in. Neji's words surprised him.

He scratched his head and grinned: "Those bad guys want to carve a caged bird curse mark on Hinata. You are Hinata's cousin, and I am Hinata's family. We should all protect our families. Our family members are about to be harmed. We must not let ourselves feel sorry for ourselves and remain depressed!”

"So, when I saw your depressed look just now, I couldn't help but want to punch you..." Naruto was a little embarrassed.

Because his punch was quite powerful.

He was also a little amazed at the firmness of Neji's face.

After all, if this punch hits an ordinary person...

High and low can break half of the opponent's teeth!

"Protect... your family?"

Neji looked at Hinata.

It's not that easy to get him to completely let go of his prejudice against Hinata. After all, he has lost a father.

The psychological shadow of childhood cannot be eliminated so easily.

But at least Neji was looking at Hinata.

It no longer carries that hatred.

There's no alienating aversion either.

"Okay! Let's discuss how to deal with that bad guy who wants to hurt Hinata!" Naruto fisted each other and said, "Shikamaru, you are the smartest, do you have any ideas?"

Shikamaru:"……"

"Okay!" Shikamaru sighed, his brain working rapidly: "The Hyuga sect arranged for Neci to carve a caged bird for Hinata. We can use the 'exploitation relationship' between him and Neji to make him put down a little bit first. Be a little wary.”

"However, today is not a good time. That kind of old fox can definitely tell that Neji is very entangled in this matter. If Neji went back today and told him that he had carved the caged bird on Hinata, he would definitely not believe it. .”

"What's more, so many jounin know that Neji was the first to be attacked by the Akatsuki organization. The Hyuga clan must have learned the news soon, so he doesn't believe that Neji can finish it today."

"It just so happens that we also need a certain amount of time to formulate a plan. One plan is definitely not enough. We have to formulate multiple plans. Moreover, we also need to win over more trustworthy people."

Shikamaru felt like a dog-headed strategist now.

He actually had a sense of "this feels pretty good".

After all, Kisame Kisaki, the dignified member of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Kirigakure Village, was listening to his proposal.

Shikamaru felt a little better.

Once he analyzes it.

His mouth never stopped.

……

time flies.

Blink afternoon.

"Itachi-kun, where did you go just now?" On a street in Konoha, Izumi Uchiha, who had long hair reaching her waist, held a small women's watch. She pointed to the hour and minute hands on the watch: "Don't you have any sense of time? ? More than half an hour late!"

"Sorry." Itachi's expression was as cold and paralyzed as ever, and he told a little lie: "You should also know about the commotion that happened in the village just now. As an ANBU ninja, I had to go over and see what happened. "

"Hmph! I will reluctantly forgive you this time. If there is another time, I will ignore you!"

Uchiha Izumi stuck out his tongue.

Then, Itachi, who was a little taller than him, said, "Squat down a little!"

"Okay." Itachi obeyed.

Uchiha Izumi stretched out his hand and pinched Itachi's eyes, and then made another gesture to Itachi and asked: "It seems that he has recovered well! Itachi-kun, what is this gesture?"

"Five," Itachi said.

"What about this?" Uchiha Izumi changed his gesture.

"Two," Itachi replied.

Uchiha Izumi suddenly held a pink fist: "Then what is this?"

"zero."

Itachi breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It seems that the eye surgery is very suitable, and I have not felt any discomfort recently. Thank you Quan, I am very grateful that you helped me do the eye surgery."

"Big idiot!" Uchiha Izumi's pretty face suddenly darkened.

Itachi pretended not to understand.

"By the way, Itachi-kun." Uchiha Izumi said with a complex expression: "Last night the family leader called us to a clan meeting, but... I didn't see you at the clan meeting."

Itachi's reaction was very ordinary: "They didn't invite me."

This is actually normal. It's obvious that he belongs to the Konoha faction, not the Uchiha clan.

The Uchiha clan has held several clan meetings recently.

Itachi only participated once.

That time he had a big fight with several elders at the clan meeting, and he was never invited again after that.

Itachi took a deep breath.

He asked: "Are they still stubborn?"

"...Well!" Izumi Uchiha whispered back: "The elders in the family are becoming more and more dissatisfied with Konoha. They even said a lot of shocking things... I feel like this very bad."

In fact, some people in the Uchiha clan are not very sensitive to the conflict between the village and the Uchiha.

They were not those extreme Uchihas.

Nor did he side with the higher-ups in Konoha.

Uchiha Izumi is this kind of person. She doesn't think so much, and she doesn't dare to think so much. She simply felt that the current "voices" of the Uchiha clan were very unsubtle.

There is a sense of imminent storm.

It made her feel a little scared.

I always feel like something is going to happen.

Itachi was not surprised by this. No one knew the Uchiha radicals better than him: "This is the measure of the Uchiha clan!"

He looked at the spring that was so close.

A bit hesitant to speak.

I was struggling internally.

"spring……"

"Ah?" Uchiha Quan's watery eyes brightened slightly: "Itachi-kun, you...do you have something to say?"

"...It's nothing." Itachi's inner struggle gradually dissipated: "I just want to remind you to pay attention to it recently. The village may be a little unstable these days."

Itachi paused and reminded: "You'd better practice your Sharingan, which is the greatest treasure of the Uchiha clan. I remember... after you used the Sharingan last time, because it wasn't very I didn't know how to turn it off, so I fainted."

Uchiha Izumi was a bit embarrassed to defend his embarrassing past: "After all, I am only half of the Uchiha clan blood!"

"It's best to practice more...don't faint during the battle. In this way...maybe you will be able to protect yourself a little bit." Itachi meant something, but didn't say much more.

He didn't stay here for long in Uchiha Izumi.

He disappeared in an instant.

Uchiha Izumi was left alone.

"Itachi-kun...have you been so weird lately?" Uchiha Izumi grabbed a strand of her long hair and twirled the ends of her hair in circles on her fingertips. She muttered to herself: "Besides, Itachi-kun is such a big idiot! I'm so It's an obvious hint... He didn't notice it! Damn it, damn it, damn it! He should stay single for the rest of his life!"

The more Izumi Uchiha talked, the angrier he became. He even regarded the air next to him as an imaginary enemy, imagining that Uchiha Itachi was still by his side.

She waved her little pink circle, puffed up her cheeks, and muttered: "Maybe I should give him a couple of punches!"

"……Eh?!!"

Uchiha Izumi's eyes suddenly widened, and she realized that her fist seemed to have accidentally hit a passerby.

His movements suddenly stiffened.

Cold sweat broke out from his forehead.

"Yes! I'm sorry!" Uchiha Izumi turned around hurriedly, and then immediately made a ninety-degree bow. As a result, she bowed too quickly and accidentally threw her long hair in front of her. She noticed that her hair seemed to have hit the other person.

"Ah! Yes... I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Uchiha Izumi was so anxious that he was about to cry.

She was apologizing profusely.

Uchiha Izumi didn't know how many times she shouted sorry, and then she cautiously raised her head and looked ahead.

As a result, he suddenly found that there was no one in front of him.

There was only a strange pillar that appeared at some point.

The pillars seemed to be wrapped in some kind of fabric.

"What is this?" Uchiha Izumi looked up curiously. As her gaze continued to move upward, her breathing became slower and slower, until she almost stopped breathing.

"Eh?! Bai... Bai..."

She couldn't suppress the shock in her heart.

He screamed out in surprise on the spot.

"White beard!!!"

……

Time moves forward for about a minute or two.

Whitebeard who appeared here simply wanted to take a stroll around Konoha and see if there were any homeless children in this rundown village who were worthy of being taken into his pocket and become his Whitebeard's son.

At the same time, Whitebeard also wants to find a chef for the Whitebeard Pirates. Otherwise, if every banquet consists of barbecue + wine, it will be a bit too monotonous!

Whitebeard remembered that when he was on the Moby Dick, the best chef son was Thatch.

Unfortunately……

Because of the ambition of that bastard Teach, Sachi eventually died in the hands of Teach the Blackbeard.

It was precisely for this reason that Ace took the initiative to ask Ying to pursue Blackbeard. In the end, he was defeated by Blackbeard and was captured alive by Blackbeard and sent to Marine Fando, the headquarters of the Navy.

This was also the start of the battle at the top.

This is the root of his Whitebeard journey.

The memories welling up in his mind caused several layers of gloom to appear on Whitebeard's face, and his whole aura became extremely terrifying. After all, these memories were not good memories.

Until Whitebeard discovered that a kid from the Uchiha clan suddenly punched his boots.

Then... Whitebeard discovered that this kid was quite polite.